Google Bard has been released (in some countries) for people to use and experience the AI that Google is pushing as the primary competition to ChatGPT. I tried it just now and found it to be fairly decent. …

After the Cambridge Analytica Scandal, FaceBook agreed to independent assessments of its privacy program. As part of that assessment, the FTC has decided that FB (now Meta) is violating user privacy by sharing people’s private information with third-party apps. The next violation is more serious — that of violating the…

Are wearables and health sensors good or bad? Like with any technology, it is only as good or bad as the humans using it. Neurotechnology’s influence on human existence may have both positive and negative effects. Sensors could revolutionize health care by enabling early identification of presymptomatic cognitive decline, including…

The recent episode of “PTRLeaks” has sparked a debate in Tamil Nadu about whether someone’s voice can be cloned completely using AI. Annamalai and his team claim it is PTR’s voice and though it has not been explicitly denied, team DMK is claiming it is a cloned voice. …

I asked ChatGPT for a training plan for someone that I know. He wanted to learn AI programming over a 2-month period. Here is a detailed plan generated by ChatGPT and it’s pretty good — something that most people can use. Given that the person has basic Python programming experience…

“If you are unwilling to disrupt yourself, there will always be someone willing to disrupt your business for you” This quote proved to be the story of Blockbuster and Netflix. In 2000, Netflix’s owners tried to sell their startup to Blockbuster for $50 million. …

AI tools like ChatGPT seem fantastic. But do you know the environmental costs of the searches that you and I are making on ChatGPT? “An average user’s conversational exchange with ChatGPT basically amounts to dumping a large bottle of fresh water out on the ground, according to a new study.”…

I learned how to program a simple Telegram bot today and I took the help of ChatGPT for that. Disclaimer — This post is strictly only for educational purposes. …

This photo won the Sony World Photography Awards 2023 held by World Photography Organisation. A press release claimed it as: “a haunting black-and-white portrait of two women from different generations, reminiscent of the visual language of 1940s family portraits.” But this photo also became controversial quickly when the German artist…